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With Floury Hand (sketches) / Med Mj​ö​lad Hand (skisser) [plus Live: Gouveia Art Rock Festival 2005 / Live: Heuwiesse 2005]

by Lars Hollmer

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    With Floury Hand is the final release by Lars Hollmer. In addition to the CD that contains the best recordings of what he was working on before he died and which is a huge treat in itself, also included is a professionally filmed DVD from 2005 of a performance at the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal. The beautiful 45' performance here has six solo pieces, four duet pieces with his long-time friend and musical associate, bassoonist Michel Berckmans (of Univers Zero and Von Zamla), and one track with Miriodor, with all of them performing "Talrika", the piece Lars specifically wrote for them, plus DVD extras.

    This DVD is the only professional video footage ever released of Lars and it's a revelation (or a wonderful reminder) to see and hear what a gigantic sound he got out of his huge and beautiful Zero Sette accordion. The joy and humor and melody of his work and the enthusiastic response from the audience is wonderfully captured here.

    Includes unlimited streaming of With Floury Hand (sketches) / Med Mjölad Hand (skisser) [plus Live: Gouveia Art Rock Festival 2005 / Live: Heuwiesse 2005] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Beat mm 03:16
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Siska 02:02
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Crazy Stuff 01:04
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Tyskromans 03:15
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Nyfin 02:22
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Skröna 01:23
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Tages 02:01
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Kanske 01:08
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Tivolimarsch 03:32
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Okjak 02:41
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Ukuleles 02:32
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Bam ba ra 00:33
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Antilobo 01:30
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Innanpop 02:48
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Radioyl 02:07
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Go to Africa 03:57
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Vandelmässa 01:10
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about

"With Floury Hand (Sketches) is exhilarating listening (and viewing), and in a world now without Lars, poignant and bittersweet."
– Dave Lynch/All Music Guide

Lars Hollmer was a Swedish composer, accordionist and keyboardist. He was a founding member of the influential "Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.)" movement. His band Samla Mammas Manna, were a huge and hugely popular force on the Swedish progressive rock / avant rock scene for about 15 years in the 70s and into the 80s. After Samla/Zamla/Von Zamla ended in the mid 80s, he founded and performed in a number of other bands. With one or another of his bands he toured throughout Europe, the Americas and beyond.

Starting in the 1980s and concurrent with his band work, he had a solo career where he emphasized his compositions and his accordion playing and he wrote and introduced many beautiful and exciting pieces into the modern accordion repertoire, including a piece that is a modern-day standard in Sweden, "Boeves Psalm".

"Towards the end of working on Viandra, (Lars) talked about wanting to make a new album that would be full of weird ideas and weird songs. He intended the new album to be a contrast to the melancholy and, at times, dark Viandra that he worked so hard with for several years. He said that he dug deep into his archive and found several hours of unreleased stuff, sketches, demos, and even finished songs, ranging from the early 1980s to 2008. He asked me to listen through the material and suggest a sample. That however did not happen as, in May 2008, my father was diagnosed with severe lung cancer and all plans were put on hold.... This is not With Floury Hand as my father might have imagined it and it is not a finished album. It is my selection from the more than four hours of music my father himself collected for his album. It is a mix of more or less unfinished songs and sketches that I love. It is full of wild and crazy ideas and antics, pieces of utter frivolity, but equally places full of delicate beauty. This is music straight from the heart. Just like how my father was."-Gabriel Strand Hollmer

With Floury Hand is the final release by Lars Hollmer. In addition to the the best unreleased recordings of what he was working on before he died and which is a treat in itself, this download also includes recordings from a 2005 performance at the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal. The beautiful 45' performance here has six solo pieces, four duet pieces with his long-time friend and musical associate, bassoonist Michel Berckmans (of Univers Zero and Von Zamla), and one track with Miriodor, with all of them performing "Talrika", the piece Lars specifically wrote for Miriodor, plus extras.

This album is a revelation (or a wonderful reminder) to hear what a gigantic sound he got out of his huge and beautiful Zero Sette accordion. The joy and humor and melody of his work and the enthusiastic response from the audience is wonderfully captured here.

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released May 8, 2012

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